As My Wimsey Takes Me

Dorothy L. Sayers

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links

(Auto-) Biographical Works

• The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers
  1. 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
     
  2. 1937–1943, From Novelist to Playwright
     
  3. 1944–1950, A Noble Daring
     
  4. 1951–1957, In the Midst of Life
  5. Child and Woman of Her Time

• Barbara Reynolds: Dorothy L. Sayers – Her Life and Soul
• Mo Moulton: Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
• Francesca Wade: Square Haunting
• Martin Edwards: The Golden Age of Murder

Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane

• Whose Body? (1923 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
• Clouds of Witness (1926 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
• Unnatural Death (1927 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
• Lord Peter Views the Body (1928 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)
• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
• Strong Poison (1930 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #6; Wimsey & Vane, #1)
• The Five Red Herrings (1931 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)
• Have His Carcase (1932 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #8; Wimsey & Vane, #2)
• Hangman’s Holiday (1933 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #8.5)
• Murder Must Advertise (1933 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #9)
• The Nine Tailors (1934 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
• Gaudy Night (1935 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #11; Wimsey & Vane, #3)
• Busman’s Honeymoon (1937 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #12; Wimsey & Vane, #4)
• Striding Folly (1972 – Lord Peter Wimsey, #12.5; Wimsey & Vane, #4.5)
• Lord Peter: All Short Stories (1972)

Screen Adaptations

The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (BBC 1972 – 1975, starring Ian Carmichael)

• Clouds of Witness (1972)
• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1973)
• Murder Must Advertise (1973)
• The Nine Tailors (1974)
• Five Red Herrings (1975)

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (BBC 1987, starring Edward Petherbridge & Harriet Walter)

• Strong Poison
• Have His Carcase
• Gaudy Night

Haunted Honeymoon – MGM 1940, starring Robert Montgomery & Constance Cummings

Wimsey & Vane Sequels (Jill Paton Walsh)

• Thrones, Dominations (1998)
• A Presumption of Death (2002)
• The Attenbury Emeralds (2010)
• The Late Scholar (2013)

Lord Peter Wimsey Companion Books

• The Wimsey Papers (1939 – 1940)
• The Wimsey Family: A Fragmentary History (1977; compiled by C.-W. Scott-Giles from correspondence with Dorothy L. Sayers)

Other Fiction

The Montague Egg Stories

• Hangman’s Holiday (1933)
• In the Teeth of the Evidence (1933)

Standalone Mysteries

• The Documents in the Case (1930; with Robert Eustace)

Plays

• The Silent Passenger (1935; screenplay)
• Busman’s Honeymoon (1936; with Muriel St. Clare Byrne)
• The Zeal of Thy House (1938)
• He That Should Come (1938)
• The Devil to Pay (1939)
• Love All (aka Cat’s Cradle) (1940; with Marjorie Barber)
• The Golden Cockerel (1941; radio play)
• The Man Born to be King (1941)
• The Just Vengeance (1946)
• The Emperor Constantine (1951)

The Detection Club

Project Pages

• The Detection Club
• Detection Club Bingo

Detection Club Round Robins

• The Scoop / Behind the Screen (1930 – 1931; radio plays)
• The Floating Admiral (1931; audiobook narrated by David Timson)
• Ask a Policeman (1933; audiobook narrated by David Timson)
• Baker Street Studies (1934)
• Anatomy of Murder (1936)
• Six Against the Yard (1936)
• Detection Medley (1939)
• Double Death (1939)
• Where Do We Go From Here? (1948; radio play)
• No Flowers by Request (1953)

Dorothy L. Sayers’s Translations

• Tristan in Brittany (1929; Thomas of Britain’s Old French / Anglo-Norman poem Tristan)
• The Heart of Stone (1946; Dante Alighieri’s Four Canzoni of the ‘Pietra’ Group)
• The Song of Roland (1957; from Old French / Anglo-Norman)
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  1. Hell (1949)
  2. Purgatory (1955)
  3. Paradise (1962; posthumously completed by Barbara Reynolds)

Dorothy L. Sayers’s Nonfiction

• The Mind of the Maker (1941)
• Unpopular Opinions (1946)
• Are Women Human? (addresses given / first published 1938 / 1947; republished in this format 1971)
• The Lost Tools of Learning (1947)
• Taking Detective Stories Seriously: The Collected Crime Reviews (2017; posthumous collection)
• God, Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey (2019; posthumous collection)

Dorothy L. Sayers’s Stories Elsewhere

• Short story anthology: Martin Edwards (ed.) & Various Authors: Silent Nights
• Short story anthology: Tony Medawar (ed.) & Various Authors: Bodies from the Library 2
• Two Christmas Mystery Short Story Anthologies: Various Authors: Murder for Christmas (audio) / Cecily Gayford (ed.) & Various Authors: Murder Under the Christmas Tree

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24 Great James Street, Dorothy L. Sayers’s best-known London address

Left: Mecklenburgh Square (Bloomsbury), the location of Sayers’s first apartment in London; right: the approximate location of 110A Piccadilly (Lord Peter Wimsey’s London address, across the street from Green Park).